Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 27 July 1917, Page 2

Mount Ida Chronicle FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917.

Sir James Allen has been advised that the 25th Reinforcements hav e arrived safely at their destination.

The Daily Times Wellington correspondent writes:—There seems to be some disparity of ideas among Ministers on the subject of taxation. Mr Massey has hintad that there may ba uo veiy alarming increases in taxation, Jaut Sir Joseph Ward and Mr MacDonala have on different occasions dropped remarks which indicated that they thought everything taxable should be On the whole, \it seems a safe prediction that the taxation proposals of the Government for this year will not be sensational. Early in the session the leaders of the Government were not inclined to yield to tbe demand for the repeal of the excess profits.tax, but the report now is that either the tax is to go or the method of assessment.is to be very radically changed. The return from the tax last year was such a big one that this of itself furnishes the strongest possible reason from the point of view of ..the Finance Minister against the repeal of the tax. If it is abolished there will have to be other taxes. The rails, on the Otago Central extension are now right into the yard at Cromwell and arrangements have been made to ran goods right through Besides relieving the road of a, lot of heavy traffic this will Drove a great boon to Upper Clutha residents 1 Dunstan Times.

We understand that residents of Omakau and Ophir are agitating for the establishment of a telephone exchange at the latter place, and tbat about a dozen subscribers are promised. ,Central f)tago is fast becoming well linked up with the phone and we trust the Department will be able to meet the wishes of the Omakau-Ophir, district and enable them to enjoy the benefits cf the service. Dunstan Times.

Rabbit poisoning, per medium of carrots treated with strychnine, is being carried out with remarkable success in this district. Some big tallies are reported—as much as a thousand rabbits from a day's poisoning. . Dunstan-Times.

It is a carious thing that "some people who would consider it dishonorable to avoid paying their just and legal dues m ordinary business transactions think they are .perfectly justified in using any sort df method to escape paying tribute to the State (writes Mercuitio in the Auckland Herald). A, large Auckland firm -now issues separate receipts for all articles purchased under fie value of £2, so that although a customer may buy several pounds worth of goods - at one time no receipt stamp is - used but a., separate receipts given with each article. What class of horse is 'required for artillery and remount purposes? Was the question asked at a recent meeting of the Board of Apiculture. It was suggested that as/war bad been in progress so long, a definite standard must have been arrived at. Colonel Reakes, of tjie Remount Department, asserted that for remount purposes weight carrying capacity was essential. The ideal horse was a weight carrying iiack, capable of .being burdened with 15st and from 15 to 15.2 bands high. As to the artillery horses in France they were using anything from half draught to full draught according to the work to be undertaken. Colonel Reakes added that Mew Zealand horses have done excellently, and had been almost universally praised, in Egypt and elsewhere. 1 Owing to the 1 Government Statistician being deluged with applications for certificates of enrolment and notices by Second Division reservists, of change in their condition, it has bean decided not to hold the tenth ballot this week, as originally intended, but to postpone it for four weeks, when a double ballot will be taken to fill the vacancies in the 34th and 35th Reinforcements. The alteration will make no difference in mobilisation and the regular despatch of reinforcemants from the dominion. The quarterly meeting of the Maniototo branch of the N.Z. Farmers' Union will be Held at Ranfurly, on Saturday, August 4th, at 2.30 p.m. The business' is general. Saturday's Daily Times records the death, at Kaikorai, on July 20tb, of Miss Mary Gebreill Healey, late of Naseby.

In reply to a question in the House the-. Minister of Defence stated that the men classed as dangerously wounded might be considered bad. That class was the worst of injuries, Next camo the severely wounded, in which case there was every chance of . recovery. Then came those classed as wounded, comprising men very slightly (wounded, who upon recovery would probably be ;sent back to the front. When a man in the dangerously wounded class improved he was removed to the seriously wounded class. So also was the seriously wounded man upon improving removed to to the wounded e lass. Sir James Allein announced in the House of - Representatives that one of the hospital ships had arrived safely at her destination. There had been.some anxiety on the part of tha public as to part of the 24th Reinforcements, but he could state that this part was all well, though it had not yet reached its destination. DEFECTIVE EYESIGH CAUSES 1 . NEURASTHENIA. When a child suffers from that defect in eyesight called Astigmatism, he or she suffers from headache. Hence comes inaptDess in work and study, which is frequently associated with a tram of nervous symptoms. If your child is suffering from constsnMiead.aches, get his or her eyes te*.ed bnce. You may avert years of quunt trouble. . HUGH NEILI/V D.8.0.A., Glasgow Optical House, 249 George St., Dunedin. A patriotic dance is to be held 'at Weddarburn on Friday, 3rd August, Sae advt.